Ideas
Ignore the Advisor and Stick with Your Better Judgement
Idea posted: March 2025
Institutions: Cornell University, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Cornell University Cornell Health Policy Center
People are often swayed by advice, even if that advice goes against their better judgement. Should following the advice lead to a poor outcome, many believe they will not feel…
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Developing Leaders for a Polycrisis World
Idea posted: February 2025
Institutions: Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
Researchers from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) argue that framing crises as individual events with and a start and end time fails to accurately convey the challenges that leaders…
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Why Companies Under-Communicate their Environmental Performance
Idea posted: February 2025
Institutions: HEC Montréal Hunan University, Department of Accounting University of Bath School of Management Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Management
When Toyota achieve zero waste-to-incineration production, it never publicized this remarkable accomplishment. While significant research has focused on companies exaggerating their sustainability and environmentally friendly records, known as “greenwashing”, less…
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Talent Management Focused on Skills Leads to Strategically Agile Companies
Idea posted: February 2025
Institutions: University of Queensland, UQ Business School Trinity College, Trinity Business School Dublin City University, DCU Business School Cranfield University School of Management
In addition to traditional static, job-oriented, high-performer talent management initiatives and programs, companies should approach talent management through a skills-matching perspective focused on aligning individual skills with organizational goals and…
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Middle Management Central to Successful Training
Idea posted: January 2025
Institutions: Harvard Business School
This working paper investigates why training investments, essential for productivity, often suffer from low participation rates and insufficient worker engagement. It addresses a gap in existing literature by examining how…
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Conflicts or Synergies? Middle Managers Have Different Views on Talent Management’s Paradoxes
Idea posted: January 2025
Institutions: University of Texas at Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management University College Cork, Cork University Business School University of Queensland School of Business
Middle managers play a key role in implementing the talent management programs of an organization, as they are instrumental in identifying high-potential individuals and supporting the development of their knowledge…
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How Career Concerns Impact Managers’ Adoption of New Technology
Idea posted: January 2025
Institutions: Boston University; Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
The adoption of new technology by companies and their leaders is often slow. Reasons for this hesitation can range from incentive structures that push managers to favor established technology, as…
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The Bias Against Women Leaders in Competitive Cultures
Idea posted: December 2024
Institutions: West Texas A&M University Monash University
While the extent of the gender gap in leadership roles is well documented, researchers continue to seek out the reasons for the tenacity of this gap despite a consensus for…
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Scaling Deep: How Focusing on Caring, Connected Ecosystems Transforms Organizations
Idea posted: December 2024
Institutions: Ashoka Canada The Systems Sanctuary
In business, to “scale” means to become larger, to grow. Scaling has been adapted to the social and environmental sectors in the concepts of scaling up (influencing policy) and scaling…
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